a generative exercise that uses the erogenous edge (the mouth lines) as megaphone AND portal (the lines mouth)

Fill a glass or cup with beverage of choice. Cover lips with lipstick, balm, stain, or fruit. Place a sheet of paper and a pen on the table. Inhale an intention or question. Exhale clear the space.

Drink from the glass. Leave a mark. Free-write a line with each sip - automatic - whatever comes to/through/of/from the lips and presses/ spills /pours /curls /wraps /drops /spits forth. Continue to drink and fill and sip and write until the lip smeared lines disappear. Until you erase the ring around, write. This may take minutes, hours, days, beverages, pages, pens - perhaps, there will be germs [maybe, germination]. The writing is not clean. The mouth lines; the lines mouth.

To access the Somatic Lab Notes for this exercise, check out our anthology Writing at the Edge. Share your creative and critical responses here. Let's continue the conversation at/on/of/through/with the edge.

a generative writing exercise that explores the boundaries of permission and permissibility by reclaiming the power of NO...

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a generative writing exercise working with a partner to unpack what passes between, amongst, because of “we”...

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a generative writing exercise that uses memory to exercise and exorcise point of view in storytelling: I/ you, eye/I, and i/You...

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a revisionary exercise that holds the space for questioning and questions the experience of being held...

To access the Somatic Lab Notes for this exercise, check out our anthology Writing at the Edge. Share your creative and critical responses here. Let's continue the conversation at/on/of/through/with the edge.